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Increased availability of high-resolution movement data has led to the development of numerous methods for studying changes in animal movement behavior. Path segmentation methods provide basics for detecting m...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:21
Published on: 1 September 2016
Research
Describing migratory connectivity in mobile animals is crucial for understanding the selective pressures acting on different populations throughout their life cycle. Tracking single individuals has provided va...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:20
Published on: 2 August 2016
Methodology article
Periodicity in activity level (rest/activity cycles) is ubiquitous in nature, but whether and how these periodicities translate into periodic patterns of space use by animals is much less documented. Here we i...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:19
Published on: 1 August 2016
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Mass migrations are among the most striking examples of animal movement in the natural world. Such migrations are major drivers of ecosystem processes and strongly influence the survival and fecundity of indiv...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:18
Published on: 15 July 2016
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Where apex predators move on the landscape influences ecosystem structure and function and is therefore key to effective landscape-level management and species-specific conservation. However the factors underl...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:17
Published on: 1 July 2016
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Knowledge of immigration and emigration rates is crucial for understanding of population dynamics, yet little is known about these vital rates, especially for arctic songbirds. We estimated immigration in an A...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:16
Published on: 15 June 2016
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Characterizing the movement patterns of animals is an important step in understanding their ecology. Various methods have been developed for classifying animal movement at both coarse (e.g., migratory vs. sede...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:15
Published on: 1 June 2016
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Generalist predators may vary their diet and use of habitat according to both internal state (e.g. breeding stage) and external (e.g. weather) factors. Lesser black-backed gulls Larus fuscus (Linnaeus 1758) are d...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:11
Published on: 15 May 2016
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Migration is a prominent aspect of the life history of many avian species, but the demographic consequences of variable migration strategies have only infrequently been investigated, and rarely when using mode...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:10
Published on: 1 May 2016
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Geolocators are useful for tracking movements of long-distance migrants, but potential negative effects on birds have not been well studied. We tested for effects of geolocators (0.8–2.0 g total, representing ...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:12
Published on: 29 April 2016
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Freshwater lakes and rivers of the Northern Hemisphere have been freezing increasingly later and thawing increasingly earlier during the last century. With reduced temporal periods during which ice conditions ...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:14
Published on: 20 April 2016
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Dispersal is a key process in the response of insect populations to rapidly changing environmental conditions. Variability among individuals, regarding the timing of dispersal initiation and travelled distance...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:9
Published on: 15 April 2016
Erratum
Movement Ecology 2016 4:13
Published on: 14 April 2016
The original article was published in Movement Ecology 2016 4:5
Research
The movement patterns of many southern African waterfowl are typified by nomadism, which is thought to be a response to unpredictable changes in resource distributions. Nomadism and the related movement choice...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:8
Published on: 1 April 2016
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The migratory patterns of animals are changing in response to global environmental change with many species forming resident populations in areas where they were once migratory. The white stork (Ciconia ciconia) ...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:7
Published on: 15 March 2016
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Many species are distributed as metapopulations in dynamic landscapes, where habitats change through space and time. Individuals locate habitat through dispersal, and the relationship between a species and lan...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:6
Published on: 15 March 2016
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Urbanization causes modification, fragmentation and loss of native habitats. Such landscape changes threaten many arboreal and gliding mammals by limiting their movements through treeless parts of a landscape ...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:5
Published on: 17 February 2016
The Erratum to this article has been published in Movement Ecology 2016 4:13
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We still have limited knowledge about the underlying genetic mechanisms that enable migrating species of birds to navigate the globe. Here we make an attempt to get insight into the genetic architecture contro...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:4
Published on: 15 February 2016
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Animals moving through air or water toward a goal frequently must contend with fluid currents, which can drift the actual path of the animal away from the direction of heading. Whether, and to what degree, ani...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:2
Published on: 31 January 2016
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Island breeding birds present an ideal system for studying migratory movements in passerines because their populations are clearly demarcated, and individuals must depart on migration from a single location. T...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:3
Published on: 21 January 2016
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Daily magnitudes and fluxes of landbird migration are often measured via nocturnal traffic rates aloft or diurnal densities within terrestrial habitats during stopover. However, these measures are not consiste...
Movement Ecology 2016 4:1
Published on: 7 January 2016
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The scale at which animals perceive their environment is a strong fitness determinant, yet few empirical estimates of animal detection ranges exist, especially in mammalian predators. Using daily Argos satelli...
Movement Ecology 2015 3:37
Published on: 15 November 2015
Methodology article
The study of inter-individual interactions (often termed spatial-temporal interactions, or dynamic interactions) from remote tracking data has focused primarily on identifying the presence of such interactions...
Movement Ecology 2015 3:38
Published on: 1 November 2015
Research
Marine environments are inherently dynamic, yet marine predators are often long-lived and employ strategies where consistency, individual specialization, routine migrations, and spatial memory are key componen...
Movement Ecology 2015 3:36
Published on: 21 October 2015
Methodology article
Solar archival tags (henceforth called geolocators) are tracking devices deployed on animals to reconstruct their long-distance movements on the basis of locations inferred post hoc with reference to the geograph...
Movement Ecology 2015 3:25
Published on: 15 October 2015
